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DJEMA REGION, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - MARCH 20: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Image contains graphic content) Ugandan troops in Central African Republic exhume the remains of top Lord's Resistance Army commander Okot Odhiambo on March 20, 2015, in the Djema Region of the Central African Republic. Odhiambo was critically wounded in an early morning Ugandan Army ambush on October 26, 2013. A defector from LRA led Ugandan soldiers to the grave in January 2015 and the body was exhumed with strict International Criminal Court protocols in place. Ugandan Army (U.P.D.F) pathologist Dr Robert Lukande and Dr Moses Byaruhanga of the Uganda Police service were both present. The grave was located 26km from the original ambush site. The corpse was wrapped in a blanket and had on a green military shirt. Bandages consistent with Odhiambo's wounds were present. Odhiambo, who once was Joseph Kony's deputy, was among the LRA leadership indicted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes. He had a reputation for extreme brutality, often acting as Kony's enforcer. Defections from the LRA have tripled in the time since Odhiambo's demise, suggesting that LRA members felt safer defecting with him gone. I.C.C authorities will shortly be conducting DNA tests on the corpse. Ugandan Army officials are confident this is Odhiambo. He was a member of the so-called "control altar" of the Lord's Resistance Army, a small group of Ugandan-born rebel commanders who planned and implemented the group's many atrocities over the years. In a rebel group known for extreme savagery, Odhiambo stood out for his ruthlessness. His ICC arrest warrant cited one account that described him as "the one who killed the most." The Lord's Resistance Army, which originated in Uganda in the 1980s as a tribal uprising against the government, is now regarded as a vastly weakened fighting force amid an international hunt for its leaders across different parts of central Africa. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images)